Marriage is a recurring theme in the Bible, there are many biblical books that mention it directly or indirectly. It is also a very relevant topic. For example, some biblical passages use marriage as an analogy for the relationship between God and his people (see Jeremiah 3 and Hosea 1-3).
In Paul’s letter to the Ephesians, marriage serves to describe the relationship between Christ and his Church (see Ephesians 5:22-33). As a curious fact, it should be noted that Jesus performed his first miracle during a wedding celebration (John 2: 1-11).
The marriage relationship as presented in the Bible is a holy union, special and blessed by God (Genesis 1:27- Genesis 2:24).
Here is a series of verses that can help you understand what the Bible says about marriage.
Matthew 19:4-6
Have you not read, replied Jesus, that in the beginning the Creator “made them male and female,” and said, “Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall come to be one body”? So it’s not two anymore, it’s just one. Therefore, what God has united, let not man separate.
Genesis 1:27-28
And God created the human being in his image; he created him in the image of God. Male and female he created them, and he blessed them with these words: “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; dominate the fish of the sea and the birds of the sky, and all the creeping things that creep on the ground.”
Genesis 2:18
Then the Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I’m going to make him a suitable help.”
Genesis 2:22-24
The Lord God made a woman from the rib that he had taken from the man and brought her to the man, who exclaimed, “This is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh. She will be called “woman” because she was taken from man ». That is why the man leaves his father and his mother, and joins his wife, and the two merge into one being.
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Ephesians 5:21-23
Submit to one another, out of reverence for Christ. Wives, submit to your own husbands as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of his wife, just as Christ is the head and Savior of the church, which is his body.
Ephesians 5:25-27
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy. He purified her, washing her with water through the word, to present her to himself as a radiant church, without spot or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless.
Ephesians 5:28-30
Likewise, the husband must love his wife as his own body. He who loves his wife loves himself, for no one has ever hated his own body; on the contrary, he feeds and cares for it, just as Christ does the church, because we are members of his body.
Ephesians 5:31-33
“Therefore a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one body.” This is a deep mystery; I mean Christ and the church. In any case, each of you also love his wife as himself, and let the wife respect her husband.
Mark 10:6-9
But at the beginning of creation God “made them male and female.” “That is why a man will leave his father and his mother, and he will be joined to his wife, and the two will become one body.” So it’s not two anymore, it’s just one. Therefore, what God has united, let not man separate.
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Ecclesiastes 4:9-11
Two are better than one, because they get more fruit for their effort. If one falls down, help him up. Woe to the one who falls and has no one to pick him up! If two lie down together, they will warm up; one alone how will it warm up?
Ecclesiastes 4:12
Only one can be beat, but two can resist. The three-strand rope is not easily broken!
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Proverbs 5:18
Blessed be your source! Enjoy with the wife of your youth!
Proverbs 18:22
Whoever finds a wife finds happiness: tokens of his favor the Lord has given him.
Proverbs 19:14
The house and the money are inherited from the parents, but the intelligent wife is a gift from the Lord.
1 Peter 3:1-2
Likewise, wives, submit to your husbands, so that if any of them do not believe the word, they may be won over by your behavior rather than by your words, by observing your upright and respectful conduct.
1 Peter 3:7
In the same way, you husbands, be understanding in your conjugal life, each one treating your wife with respect, since as a woman she is more delicate, and both are heirs to the pleasant gift of life. Thus nothing will hinder your prayers.
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Hebrews 13:4
Everyone esteem marriage and marital fidelity, for God will judge adulterers and all who commit sexual immorality.
2 Corinthians 6:14-15
Do not team up with unbelievers. What do justice and evil have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness? What harmony does Christ have with the devil? What does a believer have in common with an unbeliever?
Colossians 3:18-19
Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. Husbands, love your wives and don’t be hard on them.
1 Corinthians 7:2-5
But, in view of so much immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband. The man must fulfill his conjugal duty to his wife, and likewise the woman to her husband. The woman no longer has rights over her own body, but her husband. Neither does the man have a right to his own body, but his wife. Do not deny each other, unless by mutual agreement, and only for a time, to dedicate yourself to prayer. Don’t be long in coming together again; Otherwise, they may fall into the temptation of Satan, due to lack of self-control.
1 Corinthians 11:3
Now, I want you to understand that Christ is the head of every man, while the man is the head of the woman and God is the head of Christ.
Deuteronomy 24:5
Do not send any newly married man to war, nor impose any other duty on him. He will have a whole year off to tend to his house and make the woman he took as his wife happy.
1 Peter 4:8
Above all, love one another deeply, because love covers a multitude of sins.
Song of Solomon 8:6-7
Engrave me like a seal on your heart; take me as a mark on your arm. Strong is love, like death, and tenacious passion, like the grave. As a divine flame it is the burning fire of love. Neither the many waters can quench it, nor the rivers can extinguish it. If someone offered all his riches in exchange for love, he would only get contempt.
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Jeremiah 3:14-15
Return to me, you apostates, declares the Lord, for I am your husband! Of you I will take one from each city and two from each family, and I will bring them to Zion. I will give you shepherds who do my will, to guide you with wisdom and understanding.
Ezekiel 16:8
Time later I passed by you again, and I looked at you. You were in the age of love. Then I spread my mantle over you, and covered your nakedness. I pledged and made an alliance with you, and you were mine. The Almighty Lord affirms it.
Hosea 1:2
The first time the Lord spoke through Hosea, He said to him, “Go and take a prostitute as a wife, and have children of prostitution with her, because the land has completely become a prostitute. She has departed from the Lord!”
Hosea 2:16-17
In that day, declares the Lord, you will no longer call me: “my lord”, but you will call me: “my husband”. I will remove the name of your false gods from your lips, and you will never invoke them again.
Hosea 2:19-20
I will make you my wife forever, and I will give you as a dowry right and justice, love and compassion. I will give you my faithfulness as a dowry, and then you will know the Lord.
John 2:1-4
On the third day there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding. When the wine ran out, the mother of Jesus said to him: They no longer have wine.
Woman, what does that have to do with me? Jesus answered. It has not come my time yet.
John 2:7-11
Jesus said to the servants: Fill the jars with water.
And the servants filled them to the brim.
Now take some out and take it to the man in charge of the banquet, Jesus told them.
So they did. The man in charge of the banquet tasted the water turned into wine without knowing where it had come from, although the servants who had drawn the water did. Then he called the groom aside and told him: Everyone serves the best wine first and, when the guests have already drunk a lot, then they serve the cheapest; but you have kept the best wine so far.
This, the first of his signs, was done by Jesus in Cana of Galilee. Thus he revealed his glory, and his disciples believed in him.
1 Timothy 4:1-5
The Spirit clearly says that, in the last times, some will abandon the faith to follow deceitful inspirations and diabolical doctrines. Such teachings come from hypocritical liars, who have a calloused conscience. They forbid marriage and do not allow the eating of certain foods that God has created for believers, knowing the truth, to eat with thanksgiving. Everything that God has created is good, and nothing is contemptible if it is received with thanksgiving, because the word of God and prayer sanctify it.
Revelation 19:6-9
Then I heard voices like the rumble of a vast crowd, like the crash of a waterfall, and like the rumble of mighty thunder, exclaiming: “Hallelujah! The Lord, our Almighty God, has already begun to reign. Let us rejoice and rejoice and give him glory! The wedding day of the Lamb has arrived. His bride has made herself ready, and she has been given to clothe herself in fine linen, clean and bright.” (The fine linen represents the righteous actions of the saints.) The angel said to me: «Write: “Blessed are those who have been invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb!”» And he added: «These are the true words of God».
Revelation 21:1-2
Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, because the first heaven and the first earth had ceased to exist, just like the sea. I also saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared like a beautifully dressed bride for her betrothed.
Matthew 22:1-3
Jesus spoke to them again in parables, saying, “The kingdom of heaven is like a king who prepared a wedding banquet for his son. He ordered his servants to call the guests, but they refused to attend the banquet.
Matthew 22:8-10
Then he said to his servants: “The wedding banquet is prepared, but those whom I invited did not deserve to come. Go to the crossroads and invite everyone you meet to the banquet.” So the servants went out into the roads and gathered everyone they could find, good and bad, and the wedding hall was filled with guests.
Matthew 25:1-10
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